Not speaking for DP, but i think she means the rumours of pilots wages are untrue.

There were ‘rumours’ on UKAR not long ago that the pilots were on £50,000 – £60,000 wages and she denied those were true also.

I can only add that although she flew on Saturday at Biggin Hill, she failed to materialise on Sunday. And two members of my party were only there to see the Vulcan.

If the aircraft is not safe to fly (which it certainly wasn’t), what do you want them to do? Risk the crew, aircraft and the public?

They do try and fix things, but in this case that was not possible within the timescale they had.

And for anyone thinks that serviceability was an issue last year, please look at the link HERE, and have a good read.
You’ll see that for an old warbird they did very well indeed. 🙂

PS: Just letting you know that hangar tours to see XH558 at Lyneham are now available. Please see HERE for details.

Half way there!

‘Woaaahhhh, livin’ on a prayer!’

Not sure about the ‘given’ bit! Robin Hood has charged a sum for hangarage all these years as any commercial business would !

The Vulcan could quite happily have operated from other airfields.

I am sure there are ways of the Vulcan operating her final flight in and out! If it’s such a massive problem maybe the answer would be to ask Elvington if they could donate it there and forget all the headaches of few thousand people decending on darkest Yorkshire !

I’m not suggesting they’ve had anything for free in any sense, but being at Robin Hood has meant they’ve had a decent hangar not only to maintain the aircraft in, but have been able to hold various public fund raising events in as well. From that point of view being at Doncaster has been a success.

Whether or not the Academy project will be a success is unknown, but there’s seems a lot of people writing it off without any real foundation to their argument at the moment.

Personally I’m not too bothered where it goes (or stays), as it’s doubtful I’ll ever see it again anyway, but I hope it can remain looked after in future, whoever’s hands that may be in.

It should never ever gone to that place, when there are people at Elvington and Bruntingthorpe that could make sure it was looked after.

They left Bruntingthope in the first place for various reasons and could Elvington have provided a hangar for them to work from? The ‘people’ at those places weren’t qualified to maintain the aircraft in airworthy condition either, so that was a non starter.

From the East Midlands Airport facebook page.

East Midlands Airport EMA
We appreciate a number of people came out to the airport and surrounding area today in the hope of seeing the Vulcan flyover the area.

Unfortunately, due to safety reasons involving another aircraft we were unable to permit the Vulcan to take its planned route at the time scheduled, resulting in the Vulcan passing further away from its intended route.

We take the safety of our passengers, customers, local residents and staff extremely seriously and this was an instance when our team had to make a decision based on safety.

We’re sorry for any disappointment caused but hope you understand our reasons for the decision.

So not a deliberate snub from the Vulcan. Of course that’s still little consolation to the many who turned up, but it would be unfair to point fingers at VttS for this one.

Has she got home yet?

No, they appear to still be stuck in Iceland due to poor weather there over the last couple of days.

They anticipate finally returning to Hamilton on Sunday all going well.

Oh and to top that lot off, the two Lancasters have just flown overhead with their gear down. :applause:

Will be nice to have them back again, especially as VeRA missed the local airshow a couple of weeks ago with engine troubles.